Talk about onlinecommunities is everywhere lately. This is good news to those of us who have been building onlinecommunities as the core of our profession for many years - sometimes quietly in the shadows of marketing. We community builders celebrate this market change and have high hopes for the future.

The leaderboard recognises their value to the community in which they are placed. Reading the discussion will highlight what value the lists bring the community. Consider Twitter, and its prominent display of community members’ stats. It can help a community search, filter and reward participants. Anything more?
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To celebrate the second annual Community Manager Appreciation Day , we’ve brought together 15 essential articles for onlinecommunity managers and social media managers. We’d love your thoughts on these and also your own favourite community manager articles and resources. Image by moriza via Flickr.
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Effective community moderation often requires the ability to engage in (sometimes shameless) acts of human exchange. In earnest effort to get people to participate online we even often talk to ourselves online in hopes of inspiring someone (anyone) to talk back to us. This is social media.
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It is very easy to get excited by social media. But in all this excitement it can be easy to forget something that is more important than the tools, platforms and sites that you can make use of – the skills and expertise you need to identify, manage and grow a true onlinecommunity. What is an onlinecommunity?
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The 2012 edition measures attitudes about the state of trust in business, government, NGOs, and media across 25 countries. Instead, thanks to the information now readily available through social media, peer-peer information and expert points of view have soared to the top of the trust pyramid like a kite in a windstorm! Not really.
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